Vitol Aviation Co
Houston, TX
Company facts
- Self-certified in SAM.gov
- Entity structure
- Corporate Entity (Not Tax Exempt)
- SAM.gov registration date
- Physical address
- 2925 Richmond Ave #11, Houston, TX 77098, USA
- Website
- vitol.com
- Founded
- 1966
- Employees
- 1K-5K
- Estimated annual revenue
- $10B+
- Industry
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- Energy
- Energy Equipment & Services
- Gas Utilities
- Oil & Gas
- SIC code
- 51 Wholesale Trade – Nondurable Goods
- Profiles
Registration and certifications come from SAM.gov and the SBA; company details from public web sources. Updated .
Contract obligations by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Obligated |
|---|---|
| FY2027 To date | $0 |
| FY2026 | $39,546,571 |
| FY2025 | $91,060,897 |
| FY2024 | $437,639,741 |
| FY2023 | $623,768,572 |
Top agencies by obligations
| Rank | Agency | Obligated, FY2026–FY2027 | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Defense Logistics Agency | $39,546,571 |
Contract awards
| Award | Agency | Obligated | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turbine fuel, aviation | Energy (DLA) | $22,789,120 | |
| Turbine fuel, aviation | Energy (DLA) | $6,578,611 | |
| Turbine fuel, aviation | Energy (DLA) | $9,114,552 | |
| Turbine fuel, aviation | Energy (DLA) | $1,064,287 | |
| Equitable adjustment-ground/B | Energy (DLA) | $1,704,177 |
Latest 5 listed here. See the rest on GovTribe.
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About the company
Vitol Aviation Co, a Houston-based foreign-owned subsidiary of Vitol Inc., supplies aviation turbine fuel and naval distillate fuel to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Energy as a prime contractor on single-award indefinite delivery contracts with no set-aside designation. The company operates exclusively within the defense fuel logistics ecosystem, holding five active IDCs with a combined potential value exceeding $1.3 billion and carrying out 100% of its federal work for a single customer agency.
Vitol Aviation's capability footprint is narrowly focused on refined petroleum logistics. The company procures, aggregates, and delivers aviation turbine fuels (JP5, JP8, JA1) and naval distillate fuel (F76) to global military locations across the Western Pacific, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Atlantic regions. Representative recent work includes a $90 million single-award IDC awarded in April 2026 for Fuel Exchange Bulk Distribution (FEBD) covering NATO and U.S. military installations across Greece, Spain, Italy, Turkey, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, and Greenland, with estimated annual delivery of 95.9 million gallons of F76, 203.9 million gallons of JA1, 66.6 million gallons of JP5, and 25.8 million gallons of JP8. Earlier, the company held a $447.6 million FEBD IDC (May 2023–December 2024) and a $261.3 million Western Pacific (WESTPAC) IDC (October 2022–December 2023), both generating dozens of firm-fixed-price and fixed-price-with-economic-price-adjustment delivery orders ranging from under $1 million to over $40 million.
Customer concentration is absolute: DLA Energy accounts for all 130 awards and $3.36 billion in combined potential value across Vitol Aviation's federal footprint. The vendor has no secondary customer relationships and no subcontract exposure. Award velocity shows cyclical demand peaks: 54 awards in 2023, 38 in 2022, 33 in 2024, 1 in 2025, and 3 in 2026 to date. This pattern reflects the annual nature of DLA Energy's bulk fuel procurement programs; most delivery orders run 2–30 days and aggregate into large IDC values as recompete cycles turn.
The five parent vehicles driving task order activity are all single-award DLA Energy IDCs: SPE60222D0488 (44 task orders, $387.2 million), SPE60223D0481 (43 task orders, $317.6 million), SPE60222D0456 (18 task orders, $573 million), SPE60224D0458 (9 task orders, $185.2 million), and SPE60223D0455 (8 task orders, $240.9 million). All task orders issued under these vehicles are performance-based delivery orders for specific fuel grades and volumes. The company's placement of performance is split between El Segundo, California (its primary distribution hub) and multiple NATO and allied military installations globally.
Vitol Aviation operates as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontract footprint. The company directly performs all fuel procurement, logistics, and delivery without disclosed subcontractors. The vendor's NAICS profile is 324110 (Petroleum Refineries) with a size standard threshold of 1,500 employees or 200,000 barrels per calendar day of crude oil distillation capacity. Pricing on all awards is fixed-price or fixed-price-with-economic-price-adjustment, reflecting commodity fuel volatility and DLA Energy's use of the Bulk Bid Evaluation Model based on lowest laid-down cost. Compliance requirements include NIST SP 800-171 cybersecurity standards, extensive FAR and DFARS supply-chain and export-control clauses, and mandatory submission via the Bulk Offer Entry Tool. Vitol Aviation is positioned as DLA Energy's incumbent bulk-fuel supplier for transatlantic and Asia-Pacific military operations, with recompete risk concentrated in individual IDC cycles rather than portfolio-wide obsolescence.
Quick answers
Is Vitol Aviation Co registered in SAM.gov?
Yes. Vitol Aviation Co's SAM.gov registration is active through December 15, 2026.
What is Vitol Aviation Co's CAGE code?
Vitol Aviation Co's CAGE code is 90UG8, and its Unique Entity ID (UEI) is VBRVUG2WHG21.
How much has Vitol Aviation Co received in federal contracts?
Federal contracts obligated $91,060,897 to Vitol Aviation Co in fiscal year 2025 and $1,192,015,780 in fiscal years 2023 through 2027.
How does Vitol Aviation Co rank among federal contractors?
Vitol Aviation Co ranked #16 in PSC 9140, #23 in NAICS 324 and #24 in PSC 91 in FY2025.
What is Vitol Aviation Co's most recent federal award?
Vitol Aviation Co's most recent federal contract award is Turbine fuel, aviation (SPE60226FD13N), from Energy (DLA), on July 30, 2026.
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